Michael O. Watson v. A. R. Jago, Superintendent’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 330 · 1977
Citation profile
58 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably State v. Landrum (1990), Lincoln v. Sunn (1987)
58 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Griffin v. California · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Berger v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An amendment of the indictment occurs when the charging terms of the indictment are altered, either literally or in effect, by prosecutor or court after the grand jury has last passed on them. A * variance occurs when the charging terms of the indictment are left unaltered, but the evidence offered at trial proves facts materially different from those alleged in the indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To allow the prosecution to amend the indictment at trial so as to enable the prosecution to seek a conviction on a charge not brought by the grand jury unquestionably constituted a denial of due process by not giving appellant fair notice of criminal charges to be brought against him.. . . As a matter of ¡aw, appellant was prejudiced by the constructive amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gray v. Raines“[E]ven if a state adopts a grand jury system, federal constitutional requirements, binding in federal criminal cases are not binding on the states ... except with respect to the racial or national composition of grand juries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Liner v. Phelps
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.